Wont update due to package adobe-flashplugin conflict
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
When trying to upgrade system I get:
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.
So I try to remove adobe-flashplugin in terminal and get:
:~$ sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
Reinstalling the package also didnt work. I tried it in terminal and also from synaptic and adobe web site.
I enabled the jaunty repositories to be able to work with synaptic package manager (since it wouldnt let me because it returned above error and closed) but since I'm running karmic Koala I was not able to reinstall or upgrade the system. I forced a (now) version of adobe-flashplugin using synaptic package manager but was still not able to upgrade the system the same error came up.
When I tried to autoremove command (sudo apt-get autoremove) the same error came up.
:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libimage-
ufraw libblas3gf liblapack3gf libfreeimage3 exiv2
The following extra packages will be installed:
adobe-flashplugin
Suggested packages:
konqueror-
The following packages will be REMOVED:
exiv2 libblas3gf libexiv2-5 libfreeimage3 libgfortran3 libgtkimageview0
libimage-
The following packages will be upgraded:
adobe-flashplugin
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4018kB of archives.
After this operation, 33.2MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 153798 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adobe-flashplugin 10.0.22.87-1 (using .../adobe-
update-
update-
dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
update-
update-
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
postinst called with argument `abort-upgrade'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The error does not allow the removal of any other application, install new applications and update/upgrade the system. Therefore does not allow for security updates and thus is why I selected the check box as a security vulnerability. Hope this helps.
ProblemType: Bug
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Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 21 12:07:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ubuntuone-client 0.95.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
| johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer) wrote | #1 |
| security vulnerability: | yes → no |
| visibility: | private → public |
| affects: | ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu) → adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu) |
| johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Released → New |
| Pothikan Suresh (pothikan-gmail) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
I deleted all the "adobe-flashplugin" files I could find on the system and I was able to download ubuntu one (I had it before but was not working properly.). From what I learned, I was using adobe-flashplugin for jaunty and some of the dependencies were in conflict as I was running Karmic. Anyway Karmic would not let me update/upgrade or install new applications until adobe-flashplugin was reinstalled and then deleted. Unfortunately synaptic or the terminal werent able to delete whatever adobe files were conflicting. So I manually deleted every adobe-flashplugin file I could find. My system is back to "normal" now.
The only one problem I was left with is that I dont have an adobe-flashplugin to play youtube videos and gnash wont play them either. Terminal tells me:
Package adobe-flashplugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package adobe-flashplugin has no installation candidate